Mihai Draghici, Founder & CEO at Paybyface explained to Daily NewsPK how they are making online transaction faster and completely hands-free and providing merchants with a simple e-commerce capabilities, payment gamifications and a digital advertising network. 1. What led you to create ‘Pay by face’? I come from almost 20 years of software engineering and […]

Emirates customers can travel with confidence, as the airline will cover medical expenses of up to EUR 150,000 and quarantine costs of EUR 100 per day for 14 days, should they be diagnosed with COVID-19 during their travel, while they are away from home. This cover is provided by the airline, free of cost to […]

TPL Trakker has been chosen as the primary Location Based Services (LBS) provider by the government departments–National Information Technology Board (NITB) and National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) to support multiple national-level applications as part of Pakistan’s fight against COVID-19. Through this collaboration, TPL Maps, the mapping arm of TPL Trakker, will help the people of Pakistan during […]

In a public-private collaboration, foodpanda Pakistan and Commissioner Karachi have undertaken to distribute 50,000 face masks free of cost to households in Karachi. 30,000 masks have been donated by foodpanda while the Commissioner Karachi office will facilitate foodpanda in the distribution of masks to all the recipients so that we beat COVID-19 together. Based on […]

  PayFast brings the ultimate and innovative solution to address the pain points of the digital payments industry of Pakistan.  Pakistan has over 80 million 3g / 4g subscribers, and the huge potential of eCommerce, the market value is estimated at USD 2 billion with a remarkable average yearly growth of 58%. COVID has evidently […]

PayPal is expanding it “buy now, pay later” solutions to France, with a new installment product that will enable customers to split purchases into four equal payments over three months, nearly anywhere PayPal is offered. Online installments are incredibly popular with French consumers: 64 percent of users would have postponed or not completed their purchase […]

With all education institutions still remaining closed in Pakistan, following the impact of COVID-19, both learners and educators have struggled to cope with the disruptions to traditional education, interruptions that threaten to widen pre-existing learning gaps in different regions, thus aggravating the growing digital divide. To help bridge this gap, Huawei Pakistan launched the “Learn […]

SINGAPORE Telecommunications (Singtel) prepaid customers can now use Nets ATM bank cards to make digital top-ups and purchase data plans and services directly on their mobile devices. With the launch of Nets Click on Singtel’s hi! App, Nets ATM bank cards from DBS, OCBC and UOB can be digitized as an in-app payment mode, simplifying […]

  “The situation has challenged the existing financial practices and has brought in new opportunities as well”, said Yasum Mirza, Chief Business Officer at Access Group (DigitalPass), during an exclusive Q&A session with our Editor in Chief on the impact of COVID-19 in their business and on the financial sector in Pakistan. 1. How do […]

Dubai – June 28th, 2020: Careem, the internet platform for the greater Middle East, and Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, have partnered to expand digital financial inclusion across the Middle East and North Africa region by integrating Visa credentials into the Careem Pay Super App and providing Careem captains (the term for Careem […]